Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Learned Society of Wales, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Chance Chair of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK.

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS); Fellow of the American Physical Society; Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society; Eberly Distinguished Chair for Academic Excellence, Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Associate Dean for Research of the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2024, West Virginia University, USA; Recipient of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy in 2023.

Professor and Dean of the School of Microelectronics at Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China; He was selected as a Shandong Taishan Scholar Distinguished Expert in 2025, and a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2022 and 2023; His main research interests include intelligent optimization theory and applications; He investigated seven National Natural Science Foundation of China (including one key project) and one National Key R&D Program project, received five Prizes for Natural Science, and published 75 papers in CAS Zone I journals, accumulating 10824 Web of Science citations and an H-index of 56.

IEEE Fellow; Fellow of The Electrochemical Society; Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology; Associate Chair for Graduate Program; Director of the McNair program

IEEE Fellow; Professor with the Controls Group of the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Member of the US National Academy of Engineering; AMS Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Leader of the Doppler Radar and Remote Sensing Research at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL); Adjunct Professor of Meteorology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma

IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; President's Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST) - Impact Factor: 35.6; Members-at-Large to the Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society from 2024 to 2026.

Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors; IEEE Life Fellow; Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin; Recipient of a third millennium medal from the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society

IEEE Fellow; AIMBE Fellow; ISMRM Fellow; IET Fellow; Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE); Lam Woo Chair Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Founding Director of the Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing (7T MRI lab) at University of Hong Kong

IEEE Fellow; AAAI Fellow; Professor at the University of Michigan, Computer Science and Engineering Division at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; A member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

IEEE Fellow; Optica Fellow; SPIE Fellow; IS&T Fellow; HKIE Fellow; Founding Member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences; Founding Member, Asian Society for Engineering Education; Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Associate Head (Research and Innovation), Director of Computer Engineering Program, Director of Imaging Systems Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong

IEEE Fellow; Optica Fellow; Professor and Director of the Advanced Quantum Architecture Lab (AQUA), Vice-director of the Institute of Electrical and Microengineering (IEM), Co-director of the Section of Quantum Science and Engineering (SSIQ), EPFL, Switzerland; Recipient of the 2023 IISS Pioneering Achievement Award; Distinguished visiting scholar of the W. M. Keck Institute for Space at Caltech, Fellow of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society.

AAAI Fellow; ACL Fellow; Executive Director of Melbourne Connect and Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Australia; Recipient of honorary doctorates from the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid, Spain, in 2013, and the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, in 2015.

IEEE Fellow; University Professor for Communications, Managing Director of the Institute for Communications Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Physics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany; Editor-in-Chief of the Springer EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Brazil; Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; Professor in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, the Polytechnic School, and in the Program of Electrical Engineering, the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

IAPR Fellow; Chair of the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics; Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, CINVESTAV Campus Guadalajara

ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Director of Digital Library Research Laboratory (DLRL) at Virginia Tech; Professor of Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech

Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI); Head of machine learning applications at Verseon, USA and Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Houston, USA.